chemists

plural of chemist, British
as in pharmacists
a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together

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Recent Examples of chemists But, in China in the 1910s, these stories weren’t just beauty tips but also instructions for amateur chemists to make their own products. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Jan. 2025 To combat this, chemists developed beta-lactamase inhibitors, which block the enzyme’s function and thus preserve the antibiotic’s effectiveness. Maria Bolevich, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2024 For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, a QML team would benefit from combining quantum physicists with chemists or pharmacologists. Yuval Boger, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 Joining preservationists at Williamsburg, chemists at the paint company performed microscopic analysis on pinhead-sized samples to determine how various colors evolved over time, ultimately identifying 144 separate hues, all original to Colonial Williamsburg. Cornelia Powers, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024 Publication of the initial discovery of chemists Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy and Edwin McMillan was withdrawn after an isotope, Pu-239, was found to undergo nuclear fission to release energy that could fuel the bomb. The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2024 Li says one of the last big things on the to-do list is for some chemists or materials scientists to perfect a method for precisely placing CNTs on a wafer. IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2024 Have the chemists found a way to mask PEDs? Maury Brown, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 Regardless, chemists will continue to work on new carbon capture technologies. Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024

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